I had a couple of cool personal projects, but what really impressed them was that I sent them a minimum viable product of what they were trying to build. It wa

I had a couple of cool personal projects, but what really impressed them was that I sent them a minimum viable product of what they were trying to build. It was a music company so I put my hacky Perl skills to work and crawled youtube, songkick, musicbrainz and made a small music discovery website with cool features such as predicting the popularity of an artist based on social media metrics. I was like "I can do that look lol". They called me for an interview, I showed them my notebook full of ML notes and they asked me to start on Monday.